The Restless Hearts Podcast

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time on September 25, 2022. You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time on September 18, 2022.  You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time on September 11, 2022.  You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

This episode of the Restless Hearts Podcast includes the Proclamation of the Gospel and Father Ray's homily for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time on September 5, 2022.  You can view the full liturgy of the Word for this Sunday under Daily Readings at usccb.org.

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, August 28, 2022, the Feast of St. Augustine, he reflects on humility as the grace to hear and respond to God’s invitation that calls each of us to our own, unique place in the world—a grace that Augustine himself experienced and taught throughout his life. 

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, August 14, 2022, he reflects on the conflicts that result from receiving the Word of God, and how we all too often try to resolve those conflicts, not by accepting God’s invitation to deepen our trust, but by trying to silence the message and prevail over the disturbing Good News that Jesus announces. 

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, August 7, 2022, he reflects on the nature of faith, and how it can give us eyes to see that the way things are now—and how they have always been—is not the way they have to be.

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, July 24, 2022, he reflects on the prayer that Jesus taught us, and the way that prayers puts us in right relationship with God as well as with others.

 

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, July 17, 2022, he reflects on the story of Martha’s effort to serve Jesus and others, and the lessons we all need to learn about service—namely, that while we are all invited to be servants, we are also invited to let ourselves be served and loved by God.

In Fr. Ray's homily at Mass on Sunday, June 10, 2022, he reflects on the story known to many as the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and how in it Jesus challenges us to see even our enemies—our “Samaritans”—as capable of neighborliness towards others, and as worthy of our love.